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New York, Connecticut, and Vermont sue over Trump immigration rule

The three states and New York City sued the federal government Tuesday over new Trump administration rules blocking green cards for many immigrants who use public assistance including Medicaid, food stamps, and housing vouchers.

Police hunt killer in stabbing of California university official

Police on Tuesday hunted an attacker clad in black who stabbed to death a former California State University, Fullerton budget and finance director in the campus parking lot.

Detained immigrants sue over conditions, medical care

Immigrants held in US detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities.

President tweets doctored photo of Trump Tower looming over Greenland

President Donald Trump is making light of his own idea of buying Greenland, tweeting a doctored photo of Trump Tower looming over a small village in the Arctic territory.

Jeffrey Epstein signed will 2 days before jailhouse suicide, records show

Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier’s fortune.

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AG Barr replaces leader at Bureau of Prisons following Epstein’s death

The move shows how the death of a single high-profile suspect is likely to have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences for the $7 billion agency that has operated for years in relative obscurity.

A primary challenge by the scion of the nation’s most famous political family would trigger a potentially divisive intra-party fight.

NYPD officer who held Eric Garner in chokehold is fired

Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill dismissed the officer, Daniel Pantaleo.

Federal prisons chief reassigned amid questions over Jeffrey Epstein’s death

Hugh Hurwitz was the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons.

NYPD fires officer for 2014 death of Eric Garner

After five years, New York City’s police commissioner fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of an unarmed black man whose dying cries of “I can’t breathe” fueled a national debate.

Florida man opens front door; kinkajou runs in, bites him

Officials say a small rainforest raccoon-like creature ran into a Florida apartment and bit a man after he opened the front door to head to work.

Jeffrey Epstein’s purported madam is now a focus in sex abuse cases

Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of a British publishing magnate who died under mysterious circumstances, is one of the most prominent figures left from the Epstein orbit after his suicide.

Two mass murders a world apart share a common theme: ‘ecofascism’

Many white supremacists have latched onto environmental themes, drawing connections between the protection of nature and racial exclusion.


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